I wake up to the alarm going off. I reach over across my husband’s sleeping form and hit the snooze button and lay back down on the bed. I try to remember how I got up here to our bedroom last night, but I can’t remember a thing. The last memory I had was falling asleep spooned against my husband by the bon fire after we had just gotten done making love. I move my legs some and still feel a little bit sore from him making love to me. After a few minutes, the alarm goes off again and I reach across him again pressing my breast against him. He moans some from the feel of my breast pressed against his skin. He wakes up and wraps his strong arms around the upper part of my body pulling me close to him.

“You know how to wake up a fellow love.” as he places a kiss on me.

I look into his deep mysterious eyes, they may be brown, but they have seen so many years of living that I forget sometimes how old my husband is sometimes and the things he has seen over the years and the women he has loved. I feel jealous at the thought of the other women he has held in his arms and the other wives I know he has had, but then I remember I have him now and I know he would do anything for me.

He looks up into my hazel eyes “are you thinking about my past again love?” as he smiles at me.

“Yes, but it is a pasting thought., You know how I get sometimes.” I bury my head against his neck and nibble on his collar bone.

“I know.” as he rubs my back. “But you have me now and there’s nothing that going to change that. Not unless someone finds a weapon blessed by one of the ancient gods or goddesses.”

I stop what I am doing and look back into his eyes again “you never told me that before, you can only be affected that way.” I prop myself up on his chest and lay my legs down in between his legs feeling his manhood pressing against my womanhood.

“Seems you have learned something new about me every day then.” as he wiggles his eyebrows at me and tickles my side.

I start giggling like a little girl when he does that. “Stop that, you know I’m ticklish there.”

“That’s not the only place your ticklish at either.” I feel his hand slide down my back and cup my ass and start tickling me just below my ass cheeks.

I smack him again on the chest as he starts tickling me again. “Don’t start anything your not going to be able to finish.” I kiss him and get off him, and head to the bathroom. I start the shower after doing what business I have to before hand.

“Want some company dear?” I turn around and see him standing in the doorway.

“Sure.” I smile at the sight of him. He walks over towards me and gets in the shower with me. We spend some time in the shower washing each other's bodies and messing around, but after a while, I get out first and dry off. I remember I have that meeting with Mrs. Longford at 8:00 this morning. I glance over towards the clock on our nightstand and notice it’s 6:00 A.M.

“Oh, great I have an hour to get ready for work and an hour to get to work.” I rush to get ready for work. My husband comes walking out of the bathroom with the towel wrap around his waist. I look up from putting my make-up on “Mmmmm, yummy!!” I watch him walk over to our dresser drawer and pull some clothes out to wear.

“Oh, don’t forget Heather and her crew is coming here this morning to start on the house. She might already be here.” I get up and walk over to the window and look down into our yard. I see Heather’s red Jeep Cherokee pulling into the driveway along with several white vans as well.
She gets out and notices me watching her from my window and wave at me. I wave down at her and finish getting dressed. As I start to head out of the bedroom, I see my husband getting dressed as well. I spot his legionary tattoo on his right shoulder where it was placed before he became an Immortal.

He turns around and sees me staring at his tattoo and smiles at me. He knows I enjoy his stories of how his life was when he was a Roman Commander.

“I’ll call you after the meeting with Mrs. Longford and let you know what she tells me. Also Heather is here too.,”

“Good! I’ll give them a hand and cook lunch for them. Okay, call me on my cell phone. I’ll be outside finishing up the repairs to the garage.” he watches me walk out of the bedroom with me waving goodbye to him.

As I arrive downstairs I hear Heather knocking on the front door. I open it and see a woman about my height and age with short black hair, brown eyes, and gold rim glasses, dressed in a white painter's outfit standing there. I smile at her and see other people behind her unloading the vans that arrived with her.

“Hi, Heather. You’re here early.” I step aside to let her into the house.

She enters “I thought I would get a head start on your house today. I figure it’s going to take all week to do.”

“That’s fine. I’m in a hurry this morning cause I have a client meeting me at the office.” I head out the door with Heather behind me.

“Tom said that he would like to help you out and cook lunch for your crew as well.”

“That will be nice. It’s been a while since we have had a decent lunch and I don’t mind him helping as long, as he remembers I call the shots.”

“I don’t think he’ll mind that since this is your crew and company. He should be down in a few minutes to finish up the repairs to the garage and help you.” I head to my little black Honda Accord.

Heather stops a few feet from the car as I open it up. “Well, I should be here when you get home. If not I’ll see you tomorrow morning.”

“Okay.” I smile at her and watch as she backs away from the car as I start it up. Before backing up I roll down the window “Heather!” she looks at me “work my husband as hard as you like, he’s not happy unless he’s working hard.” I wave at her as I back out and head down the driveway towards the street.

The drive to work isn’t too bad.The traffic is normally heavy first thing Monday morning, but I make it in time. As I arrive, I notice a young African American woman dressed in black dress pants and a nice colorful blouse carrying a huge black purse waiting outside my building. I pull my Accord into the parking space reserved for my business and get out and head over to the woman.

“Mrs. Longford, I’m Victoria Brown. I’m the owner of Brown’s Detective agency. If you’ll give me a few minutes I’ll let us inside.” I give her a friendly smile. Afterward, I go through my keys and open the door. I walk in first and hold the door open for her as we head up the set of stairs to the landing and then over to the door leading to my office. As I enter my office I head over towards the wall separating my office from the other office. Where my secretary normally would sit if I had one working for me. I de-active the alarm system and usher the woman in.

“Would you like some coffee Mrs. Longford?” I get up and start a pot of coffee for myself.

“No, thank you, Mrs. Brown.” as she takes the seat in front of the desk I had been standing at.

I walk around to the other side of the desk and take the seat there. I grab a notebook out of the top drawer and my favorite pen out of my purse.

“Now Mrs. Longford. I’m going to need some basic information about your son. The first thing I need to know is what time does his school start?” I take my pen and get ready to write the information down.

“He normally leaves for school around 8:30 a.m. and gets to school by 9:00 a.m. His class doesn’t start till 9:15 a.m.”

I write this down. “Who is his teacher and what school does he go to?”

“His teacher is Ms. Williams, and she teaches fourth grade. He goes to P.B. Young Sr. Elementary School over off E. Olney Road ”

“What is your son’s full name?”

“William Alex Longford., He is 10 yrs. old, and born on September 21, 1996.”

“Do you remember what he was wearing that day?.” I look up at her and can see tears starting to form. I reach my hand out to her and pat hers.

“I know this is rough and it must be even harder for you Mrs. Longford, but I need to know these things to get a clear picture of what your son was doing that day and what to look for.”

I pull some tissue out of the box I keep in the second drawer of the desk and offer it to her. “Here you go, Mrs. Longford.” I hand her the tissue’s

“Thank you.” as she wipes her tears and blows her nose.

She looks at me “ he was wearing his favorite Redskin’s football jersey and wearing a pair of faded blue jeans with black high top Reebok tennis shoes. He normally carries around a black Power Ranger’s backpack.”

“Okay, do you have a list of his friends and where they live?” as I look into her face.

With my wolf senses, I can tell that she is scared and worried and she has too much perfume on as well.

Mrs. Longfold hands me a piece of paper folded up “here is the list of all his friends and where they live. As well where he normally goes and play.” I accept the folded piece of paper from her.

“Thank you. Oh, Mrs. Longfold did you bring the clothes I requested?”

“Yes, but I don’t see how that is going to help you, Mrs. Brown.” She looks at me with a puzzled look on her face.

I smile to myself, cause I love when people ask me this question. “Well, Mrs. Longford. I have a highly trained dog that can track your son by scent. She’s a very unique breed and was trained by the military to sniff out bombs and such. I was going to bring her in and see if she can find a scent left by your son. I know it has been several days and probably several people have walked over the spot, but she should be able to find something including the scent of the person that took your son. Have any more kids been missing from your area?”

Mrs. Longford sits and thinks about my question for a few seconds. “There aren’t any children missing, but over off of Church street several bodies were found dead in the alleyways over there.” as she looks at me. “You don’t think that has something to do with my son do you?”

“I don’t know Mrs. Longford, but I’ll ask around and see what I can find. Oh, Mrs. Longford?” as I look at her “How did you hear about my agency? I normally don’t advertise.”

“One of the clerks up at the Seven- Eleven on Redgate Avenue, told me about you when I stopped in there to get my lottery ticket for tonight’s drawing.”

“Yeah, they're nice people up at that store. I’m going to have to stop up there and thank them.” I open the third drawer in the desk and take out a piece of paper and lay it down on the desk.

“I will need for you to sign this release form so when I visit your son’s school they will allow me to see any of his records.” I hand her several release forms.

“Why do you need to see his records?” as she gives me a weary look.

“Because I would need to see his medical records kept by the school nurse if he came to school with some unusual symptoms or marks on him.” I watch as she understands and writes her name on the release form.

“Mrs. Longford, your address here, is that located in Young’s Park?” I look at her face.

“Yes, Ma. It is. Is that going to be a problem?” I notice a little bit of anger in her voice.

“No, Ma. I was just thinking about your case and trying to figure out why?” I look at her “you did say that there were some bodies found over off of Church Street?”

“Yes.” She finishes signing and lays the pen down on the desk

“Do you remember what street they were located on?” I take the pen I was holding and get ready to record her answer.

“They were found over in the area between Washington ave to C Ave.

“Hhhhmmmm!! Isn’t there a grave yard over near that area?”

“Yes, Ma. There is, one that is called Elmwood Cemetery and the other one is Cedar Grove Cemetery.” as she watches me write those places down. “Why do you ask?”

“Well, the reason I’m asking is that as you know vampires are legal citizens now and I was wondering if maybe a recently dead vampire or an old one has decided to awaken and decided to kidnap your child.”

She looks at me like am joking “It’s just a thought, Mrs. Longford, I’m going to ask around and bring my dog in first to see if I can find a scent or something. I’ll need to speak with some of the kids he walked to school with as well as some of his friends.

“Thank you, Mrs. Longford.” I close the notebook up. “I’ll call you in a few days and let you know what I have found out so far.” as I stand up out of my chair.

I watch as Mrs. Longford stands up and picks up her purse. I walk her to the door of my office and watch as she makes her way down the stairs. I turn and walk back into my office and close the door behind me and head back to my desk in the other room and sit there looking over the information I have so far.

“Why would a person want to kidnap an African American ten-year-old?” I get up and get myself a cup of coffee and head back to my desk. As
I am sitting there thinking, my phone starts to ring. I pick the phone up off my desk “Good Morning, Brown’s Detective Agency. Victoria Brown speaking.”

“Hey, Vicky what ya doing?” I hear a young woman’s voice that I recognize on the other end.

“Not much, just sitting here drinking a cup of coffee, Karen. Where are you?” as I take a sip of my coffee.

“I’m about to leave New York. I hired a few people to load up the plane and I’m waiting on them to finish, before closing up and flying back down to where you are. I should be back in about three hours if the weather permits. “

“I’ll call and tell Tom. He’s been expecting that package of his for a while and he can’t wait to get it.” as I take another sip of my coffee.

“Well then, I'd better hurry these guys up and get into the air with my cargo. See you in a little while.”

“Okay, bye.” as I hear her hang up on her end. I put the phone back on the desk and lean back in my chair.

The quietness of my office is only disturbed by the renovation going on downstairs under my office. Some new client wants his office to be the best around. So he hired a renovation crew to come in and redo the lower part of my building after getting my permission from me first. I take another sip of my coffee and just listen as the crew starts their day. I sit there for a minute and finally decide that it’s time I get off my butt and start this investigation. I get up out of my chair and head out of my office and down to my car passing a few of the guys that were hired to do the renovation. The foreman of the crew comes walking over to me. He is dress in blue jeans, work boots, and a blue flannel shirt.

“Excuse me, Mrs. Brown. I was wondering if I can speak to you for a minute or two.” as he catches up with me.

I look at him “sure!” I follow him over to his black Ford Expedition.

“I need your signature on a few of these forms since you’re the owner of this building.” He hands me the forms.

I take them and start reading over each and everyone of them before I sign them. After a few minutes, I take my pen out and start signing my name to all of them.

“Well, that should do you. Any thing else you need me for?” I look at him.

“Nope, that was it.” he takes the paperwork and puts it in a folder.

As I am about to walk away from him “Oh, how much longer are you guys going to be making noise?”

He just smiles at me “Oh, another few months. We should have the major stuff taken care of in a month or so.”

“Oh, great. That’s all I need.” as I head to my car. “You take care, Tony.”

“You too Mrs. Brown.” as he watches me get into my little Honda and start it up and head away from my office.